Information Management Sessions at IBM Connect 2013

Are you planning to go to the IBM Connect event this year? It’s coming up soon: Jan 27 - 31 in Orlando, Florida. For more information and to register: click here.If
you are going, check out the Information Management sessions that you
can participate in that address the pain associated with an
overabundance of information. Learn how to start building an
information strategy for smarter analytics, especially around social
media and sentiment analysis.Title: IBM Big Data, Information Integration and Governance: Turn Information into Insight for Smarter AnalyticsLocation: Ped number 31 - IBM Platform for Social Business ZoneJoin
us at an IBM Big Data, Integration and Governance demonstration to
learn how to turn your ever-growing supply of data into an enterprise
source of knowledge. The demonstration—which addresses both strategies
and technologies—will identify the pains associated with the
overabundance of information and spur thinking around building an
information strategy for smarter analytics especially around social
media and sentiment analysis.The Foundation for Big Data: Information Integration and GovernanceDay/Date: Monday Jan 28thSpeaker: Rick Clements, Program Director, MDM Product Marketing, IBMTime/Location: 2:15-3:15PM, Dolphin Southern Hemisphere IImproving
customer satisfaction with the right mix of personalization,
self-service, and commerce capabilities requires a high performing
business analytics platform. Organizations are turning to big data
technologies to deliver this solution. The potential of big data rests
in finding the value in the volume, velocity and variety of data. Those
companies that capture meaning through the analysis of the torrent of
data will be in advantageous positions over their competitors. During
this session, we will explain how Information Integration and Governance
best practices can assure trusted information, make business operations
more efficient and mitigate risk. Establishing Information Integration
and Governance will optimize your investment in big data and streamline
operations. Join this session to learn how Information Integration and
Governance provides trusted information on a secure platform to serve as
the basis for in-context, effective interactions.How to build data security into big data environmentsDay/Date: Wednesday Jan 31stSpeaker: Kimberly Madia, WW Product Marketing Manager, InfoSphere Guardium & InfoSphere Optim, IBMTime/Location: 3pm-4pm Swan, Swan 1-2To
be competitive, organizations are taking advantage of today's data
explosion to grow business while controlling costs and reducing risks.
At the same time, organizations must come to terms with the security
challenges they introduce. Big data environments allow organizations to
aggregate and share more and more data — much of which is financial,
personal, intellectual property or other types of sensitive data. The
good news: You don’t have to feel overwhelmed when it comes to securing
big data environments. Find out how you can apply the same fundamentals
of securing databases, data warehouses and file share systems for
securing Hadoop-based environments to prevent data leaks, ensure the
integrity of information and automate compliance controls. You will
learn: